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TIL the tax rate for the highest earners under Republican president Eisenhower was 91%. It currently stands at 35%.

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oBlDY TIL about "Earthquake Baroque", an architectural style developed after a series of earthquakes on the Philippines - stone buildings like churches were made low and wide, with thick, buttressed walls like fortress ramparts
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